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MOURA, Edson Lucio da Silva et al. Collective Health Dental Practices in the Family Health Strategy. Rev. ABENO [online]. 2015, vol.15, n.3, pp. 52-59. ISSN 1679-5954.

The Family Health Strategy (FHS - Estratégia Saúde da Família/ESF) in Brazil aims to prioritize promotion and protection of the health of individuals and families within the community. It is based on the reorientation and reformulation of the work process in the context of the Single Health System (SHS). The expansion strategy, qualifications and primary care consolidation are centered on health care through promotion and recovery actions, based on the new conception of the healthdisease process, with attention focused on family and organized actions in territory defined. In this field, dentistry is inserted also in health promotion, so that the activities developed by professionals are not restrict only to the curative treatment of dental caries. This experience report aims to reflect about practices in health care experienced by dental students at Federal University of Pará. The contact with the local reality became the most sensitive and critical subject in its operations in the National Health System, as well as provide the opportunity for multidisciplinary work and consolidate theoretical concepts of primary health care team experienced on graduation.

Palavras-chave : Community Dentistry.; Family Health.; Education; Higher..